Word: dupee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when a nation in defeat was yet to be Yanked from German rule, this sly bit of Italian history mixes its satire with equal parts of compassion, reminiscence and rue. Tognazzi is the perfect dupe, a tragicomic caricature. Spouting patriotic songs and slogans, he is dispatched to Abruzzi to capture and bring back to Rome a Professor Bonafe (Georges Wilson), described as "the greatest living thinker." He gets the prisoner into the sidecar of his motorcycle, but the partisans take potshots at it, the Allies drop bombs around it, and the Nazis requisition it. He switches to a German amphibious...
...resentful bewilderment. He never tries to understand or to analyze. Instead, as he says, "I am angry." He argues, in effect, "I see nothing in abstract art because there's nothing to see. Any one who claims to see anything in it is either a faker or a dupe...
...this course than wizened, fierce-mustached George Grivas, 66, the ascetic little soldier (5 ft. 4 in.) who led Cyprus' EOKA revolt against Britain in 1959 and spent five years in Greek exile. Dissatisfied with the policies of Makarios, whom he considers dishonest, not very clever, and a dupe of the Communists, Grivas talked Greece's leadership into letting him return to Cyprus last month. Virtually unannounced, he arrived and instantly won the loyalty of the Greek Cypriot irregulars-to the considerable chagrin of Makarios, who wants to get rid of Turkish influence in Cyprus but is reluctant...
...That dupe and scapegoat...
Surviving papers, Nazi or otherwise, lined up so meekly that Hitler himself complained: "It is no great pleasure to read 15 newspapers all having nearly the same textual content." Turning out such dupe sheets could have been no great pleasure either. Twice daily the Ministry of Propaganda sent every paper the Tagesparole, the word for the day, specifying content down to the headlines and the required epithets for Roosevelt ("gangster," "criminal," "madman"). Every level of government sent handouts accompanied by demands that they appear on Page...